risque
See also: risqué
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French risqué.
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
risque (comparative more risque, superlative most risque)
- (US) Alternative form of risqué
- 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club:
- But despite being the first episode of The Simpsons to feature Marge’s naked butt, there’s nothing particularly risque about any of the nudity—if anything, the pitchfork-wielding farmer’s threat of “ass-forking” feels the most over the line.
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Noun
risque (countable and uncountable, plural risques)
- Obsolete spelling of risk
Verb
risque (third-person singular simple present risques, present participle risquing, simple past and past participle risqued)
- Obsolete spelling of risk
Anagrams
- Squier, Squire, quires, squier, squire
French
Etymology
From Middle French risque (first attested in 1578), borrowed from Old Italian risco (modern Italian rischio).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁisk/
Audio (file)
Noun
risque m (plural risques)
- risk
- le risque d'une nouvelle guerre mondiale
- the risk of a new world war
- Je n'aime pas trop prendre des risques.
- I don't like taking risks that much.
- Synonym: danger m
Derived terms
- à ses risques et périls
- au risque de
- courir le risque
- gestion des risques
- risquer
Descendants
- → Russian: риск (risk)
- → Armenian: ռիսկ (ṙisk)
- → Turkish: risk
Verb
risque
- inflection of risquer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “risque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- quiers, requis
Portuguese
Verb
risque
- inflection of riscar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative